Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in India in September 2025

Investor	Payments India investments
Amrish Rau	17
Jitendra Gupta	12
Kunal Shah	11
Kevin Lin	6
Sandeep Nailwal	4
Kunal Bahl	4
Seth Weinstein	4
Ashneer seth Grover	4
Abhishant Pant	4
Sriram Krishnan	4
Rahul Mehta	3
Rohit Bansal	3
Binny Bansal	3
Lalit Keshre	3
Ujjwal Sahay	3
Rajan Anandan	3
Mohit Saxena	3
Rajan Anandan	3
Afzal Modak	3
Vlad Tenev	3
Rais Motlekar	3
Archana Priyadarshini	2
Bhavish Aggarwal	2
Anand Chandrasekaran	2
Varun Tejpal	2
Sung Ho Choi	2
Sailesh Ramakrishnan	2
Sunil Kalra	2
Kishore Ganji	2
Sumon Sadhu	2
Eric Kwan	2
Ramakant Sharma	2
Shrishti Sahu	2
Vikram Chachra	2
Pei-fu Hsieh	2
Utsav Somani	2
Akshay Kothari	2
Aniruddha Malpani	2
Sanjay Mehta	2
Sajid Rahman	2
Aman Gupta	2
Nimesh Kampani	2
Rahul Seth	2
Jaynti Kanani	2
Sachin Sinha	2
Sujeet Kumar	2
Harsh Pokharna	2
Vikrant Batra	2
Ajeet Khurana	2
Victor Wang	2

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
Spense — Hi there, we understand creating a fintech is hard. It involves intricate processes, considerable expenses, and extensive time to launch. Our apis & platforms will enable your groundbreaking financial idea to materialize in a few months.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
Moderate — As seen on Shark Tank India. Clinically-backed formulas tested at AIIMS. Control post-meal sugar spikes, reduce glucose variability, reduce carb absorption and curb cravings with our science-backed, plant-based solutions for balanced energy and lasting wellness.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Seth Weinstein is a Managing Member at ZAX LLC.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AiPrise — Combine identity verification, fraud protection and compliance in one single platform, allowing you to expand globally hassle free.
OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Bedrock AI — Real-time forensic investment research. Bedrock AI is a web-portal for stock research. We extract red flags from SEC filings based on machine learned associations with downside risk.

Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. He previously worked at PC Jeweller Ltd as a Head Of New Business. Ashneer Grover attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

TigerPay — TigerPay allows card payments instantly from your smartphone and is reshaping payment solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises.
Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!

Abhishant Pant is a Mumbai based Fintech expert and has more than a decade of hands-on experience of payments landscape.He has spoken about the Fintech landscape via Ted Talks, Lectures at NUS, IIM and IIT’s and at various Banking conferences, he is closely associated with the Fintech world (as mentor) via incubators like Barclays Rise andwrites regularly on Fintech landscape opportunity and challenges.He is extensively covered by Media both India (TOI, HT, ET, Zee News, India News , Mid-Day etc ) and abroad (BBC, Dagnes Nayhter) and was recently named among TOP100 Fintech Professionals in Asia.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Zimyo — Zimyo HRMS automate HR processes & empower organizations to elevate their employee experience and enhance productivity.
ShopSe — Shop Smart with ShopSe Instant No-Cost EMI, India's largest Instant EMI Platform.
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services

Sriram Krishnan - SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships @ HeadSpin

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Goldcast — Goldcast is the purpose-built platform for B2B marketers to run more engaging events and drive revenue. Marketers use Goldcast to create a Netflix style user experience for attendees and provide actionable engagement insights for the sales team through seamless integrations
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Oyster — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.

Rahul Mehta is a Co-Founder at DST Global.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Posha — With our smart kitchen robot, Julia, we are making home cooking great again! Find out more about our story, technology, and Julia herself.
Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
RISA Labs — We exist for humanity 2Win. Pioneering BOSS [Business (Operating System) as Service]. Trusted by Top Oncologists, we serve mission critical enterprises. Transforming key operations with AI-driven discipline. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, RISA has offices across the globe.

Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
Theranautilus Private Limited — Theranautilus, is a nanorobotics company, translating the result of a decade of research and development in nanorobotics from laboratory to clinics. We are a hardware company specializing in instruments for fabricating nanorobots, safe deployment of nanorobots in living systems, and mechanisms to maneuver them to their target inside the bodyremotely.

Ujjwal Sahay is the Founder & CEO of Ment Tech Labs - An Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider. Ujjwal backed Ment Tech Labs with $60,000 of seed round to start scaling the Fintech products globally which made Ment Tech Labs as the only complete Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider.Ujjwal is a passionatetechnologist and successful startup executive with 5+ years of experience in Fintech Solutions Development, Engineering, and Marketing—focusing on lean methodology, design prototyping, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and APIs. Ujjwal's leading advocated for customer-centric design, UX, and the thoughtful application of technological innovations. Ujjwal also led high-performing product launch, engineering, Dev-ops and QA teams—both on and off-shore.Fintech, Blockchain, Machine Learning & Cryptocurrency are few of his field of interest and expertise. Writing about the technology used to be his hobby always and this turned into a profession as well with two of his published books, Hack-X-Crypt and X-Shell.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ment Tech — Build smarter with Ment Tech. We are an AI-first Web3 & blockchain company helping you launch AI trading tools, tokenized assets & DeFi platforms.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Mohit Saxena is the Founder and Group CTO at InMobi Group. He oversees all CTO's leading the tech at various InMobi Group Companies.Prior to InMobi InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&Tand has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area.Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him.Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FamPay — Sign up now to get your own FamCard and lots of rewards. FamPay offers a safe and secure banking experience for teens and their families.
Opentalk — Create, join and moderate private and public chat rooms. Chat and share with people worldwide in chat rooms and private messages. Chatrooms are a great way to meet virtual friends. Use pChat as a web chat app, or download the iOS / Android mobile application.
Factors.AI — Factors.ai is an end-to-end marketing analytics and attribution platform that integrated across data silos to deliver actionable, privacy compliant, AI-powered insights. Try now!

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Afzal Modak is the Director at VitalProbe Inc. Afzal Modak attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Angel
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.
Hydra Electric™ — Hydra Motors is a UAE automobile manufacturing start-up headquartered in Dubai, specializing in the plotting and modelling of electric vehicles. The company is also involved with vehicular design firm Hydra Design Labs, although they are not actually related.
Logo Infosoft — Logo Infosoft provides digitized and simplified solutions for MSMEs and Enterprises in the accounting, invoicing, and secondary sales (supply chain) space, while CaptainBiz helps MSMEs manage inventory, get invoicing organized and paid on time. J-Platform DMS is a comprehensive distribution management system for Super Stockists, Distributors, andDealers of various sizes and scales, offering features such as pay cycle, claim, inventory management, and more

Vlad Tenev is the current Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of HarmonicHarmonic. Vlad Tenev attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.

Rais Motlekar

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.

Archana Priyadarshini is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Forward Slash Capital. She previously worked at PointOne Capital Fund 1 as a General Partner. Archana Priyadarshini attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Threado AI — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
Exprto Live — Exprto connects students directly with the IIT-JEE and NEET recent year toppers for personal guidance.
Metastable Materials — Metastable Materials which extract metals from end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries.

Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. Sensing the need to change the way transportation is consumed in India and create a choice of reliable personal transportation in acountry that's as unique as India, Bhavish quit his job in August 2010 to start Ola! Within 3 years, Ola is India's largest network of personal transportation options and also the most popular app amongst customers and users in over 22 cities of its operations. Bhavish was featured as one of Hindustan Times’ 30 Achievers under 30 as well as in the Forbes India list of 30 under 30.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, FinTech, Transportation
Series A, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
Krutrim — AI that gets things done. Does your research, books rides, pays bills and more.

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

Varun Tejpal is a CEO and Co-Founder at FourQ Systems. He attended Delhi University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Estimated Inc. — A new world for artists
Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] playground for beauty enthusiasts

Sailesh Ramakrishnan serves as Chief Technology Officer of LocBox Labs Inc. Sailesh Ramakrishnan is a Partner of Rocketship.vc. Sailesh Ramakrishnan previously served at Kosmix and at Walmart Labs as Director of Engineering. He worked as a Computer Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Sailesh Ramakrishnan has combination of marketing andengineering experience.

Investment focus

Solar, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

IppoPay — IppoPay provides Payment Solutions to Small businesses, SMEs, and Freelancers.IppoPay is a Payment Aggregator for businesses that collect and accept payments from their customers using Payment links, Invoice, Subscription, Social Commerce, and UPI. We target businesses, freelancers, homeprenures, and people who do business in Tier 2 and 3 cities,and rural areasSubscription: IppoPay helps small business like milk vendors, newspaper agencies, and Service AMC business/individuals to receive monthly/weekly/daily recurring paymentsSocial Commerce: IppoPay helps bring offline business online. Create your online store in 20 sec. Create an online, showcase & manage your products over social media and increase your sales.UPI and Tap to Phone: We have all kinds of stores/vendors to receive payments via UPI. IppoPay offers stores/sellers a simple way to accept card payments. Contactless payments acceptance through the seller’s smartphone. Sellers do not require additional hardware. Easy to set up on their own phone.Payment Gateway: Accept domestic and international payments with 100+ payment options via Payment Links, Invoice, Web API, SDKs, and eCommerce plugins.
Meograph — Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California.
Mindgrove — Discover the benefits of choosing Mindgrove Tech's System on Chip, backed by SHAKTI open-source processor program. Join the movement to put India on the map.

Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects

Investment focus

Financial Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series C
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chargeup — Chargeup is a full-stack EV Financing & Asset Management Platform. We enable last-mile drivers with ownership and higher earnings
Medikabazaar — Medikabazaar is an online B2B marketspace for medical supplies and equipment. They are a single point of contact for all product-based needs, enabling medical institutions and individual practitioners alike to cut down on operational costs and making the best global brands available locally, all aided with the miracle that goes by the name oftechnology. They are connected with more than 50,000 medical establishments, 1,50,000 Independent Practitioners, and have partnered with 13,000+ suppliers all over India including ones in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, and remoter locations to establish a strong foothold in India and simultaneously earn the respect of our clients. With the power of technology, we organized a haywire market in a country with perhaps the largest and most complex geographical structure in the world for this purpose. Our last-mile delivery system and 26 strategically placed Fulfilment Centres across India enable us to deliver essential medical supplies to healthcare facilities and help them nurture quality and timely patient care. With our first international office in the Middle East, we are transcending boundaries to deliver care, everywhere.
Pepper Farms — Pepper Farms is an agritech startup that helps farmers in organizing the vegetable production lifecycle by building a network of farms with end-to-end virtual management, customized agronomy, and direct market linkages.

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.

Sumon Sadhu is the founder of Imperial Entrepreneurs at Imperial College London. He has been on the advisory board of Seedcamp and was selected as one of the top 10 rising stars in business in the UK by Courvosier Future 500. While he has a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, he is a PhD dropout of Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

DataBrain — DataBrain creates a single source of truth for metrics for data teams so they can easily collaborate, add governance and operationalize metrics.
Yess — Yess automates your agency's inbound sales to win 10x more deals with AI sales rep Mia. Mia hyper-personalizes sales strategies, follow-ups, and proposals by analyzing context in real-time and leveraging the best-in-class inbound sales tools.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a provider of a DataOps observability platform for improving data infrastructure efficiency. It has developed a unique data infrastructure observability and optimization product that’s initially aimed at Snowflake Inc.’s cloud data warehouse platform. Organizations can save money on Snowflake by receiving automated recommendationsto optimize their workloads, identify inefficient queries, and improve query performance. The platform analyzes Snowflake workloads with millions of queries using query patterns to identify inefficient queries and provides intelligent recommendations that significantly improve performance.The company was founded in 2021 by Preeti Shrimal and Harshit Surana. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
Rabitat — Rabitat is a consumer product company that offers creative lifestyle solutions for customers through trusted brands. Merlin Brands was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in New Delhi, India.

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
Thermoflyde — Refractory

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner at 8i Ventures.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

YAP — API infrastructure for banking, payments & lending, facilitating safer, simpler, & faster money transfer worldwide. M2P aims to embed financial services into business value chains.
8vdX — Fine-tuned AI models for scaling credit investing workflows, reducing analysis time and costs by up to 10x, and setting a new standard in rapid, cost-effective deal analysis and monitoring with initial focus on MBS, ABS, CLOs, etc.
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services

Pei-fu Hsieh is a venture partner at 01vc, focusing on investment opportunities in Southeast Asia. Pei-fu brings to 01VC extensive investment and operational experience in SEA. He has spent 15 years in Thailand and begins his career with Lombard Investments providing expansion and acquisition capital to companies in SEA.Pei-fu founded and heldthe helm of several Rocket Internet companies from 2012 to 2015. As CEO of Zalora Taiwan, he built the site to become a household name. Pei-fu soon went to find Easy Taxi Taiwan, which became the largest taxi-hailing app locally within less than one year. The final Rocket Internet-related company that Pei-fu served was as the CEO of Groupon Taiwan. Prior to joining 01VC, he was spearheading the expansion for Mamilove, a Social commerce platform into SEA including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia.He received his MBA degree from UC Berkeley, BBA degree from Chulalongkorn University and is a CFA charter holder.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

YAP — API infrastructure for banking, payments & lending, facilitating safer, simpler, & faster money transfer worldwide. M2P aims to embed financial services into business value chains.
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.

Dr Aniruddha Malpani is an IVF specialist who passed out from Bombay University, winning over 20 gold medals during his academic career. His clinic at www.drmalpani.com attracts patients from all over the world. He also runs the world’s largest free patient education library, HELP , at www.healthlibrary.com. He has authored 4 books – How to Get theBest Medical Care ( www.thebestmedicalcare.com),Successful Medical Practise, How to Have a Baby and Using Information Therapy to Put Patients First. His passion is patient empowerment, and he believes that patients are the largest untapped healthcare resources, and we need to use patient power to heal our sick healthcare system. He has pioneered the use of innovative technology to educate infertile couples, using cartoon films, comic books and e-learning on his website- www.ivfindia.com. He is an investor in Plus91 ( www.plus91.in), an EMR and digital marketing provider, India’s market leader for creating digital media for patient education, and is on the Board of Inventurus Knowledge Solutions, a healthcare BPO which provides RCM solutions for the US market.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Multibhashi — Learn languages in your mother tongue with live interactive classes. Highly qualified teachers, customized curriculum, flexible timing. Start learning today with Multibhashi!
Biomoneta Research — Biomoneta is a health tech startup that aims to prevent the transmission of infection in the hospital and the community, and the spread of microbial contamination in commercial and academic laboratories. Our novel, extremely effective air decontamination technology traps and kills bacteria, mold and viruses that contaminate the environment andcause infection and product loss. Our energy efficient devices can be deployed near patient beds in the hospital and home, in biotech laboratories to create local zones of decontamination, and can be integrated into central air handling units to provide building-wide protection.
Creditas Solutions — Digital Debt Collections | Delinquency Management | Debt Recovery

Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nuo — Earn daily interest on Ether or get instant crypto backed loans
CoinDCX — CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.
Coolberg — Welcome to Coolberg - The Non-Alcoholic Beer brand from India. Our drinks are malt based crafted brews without alcohol (0.00% ABV), and can be consumed by all ages. The perfect drink to blend in and celebrate with your family and friends, Coolberg is indeed The Drink For All!

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anveshan — At Anveshan, we make food products that are natural, healthy and chemical free. Anveshan provides the best quality food products through the use of technological solutions. We have cold-pressed/wood pressed oils, A2 vedic bilona ghee and super seeds for healthy diet and immunity boosting.
Let's Try — Let's Try sells namkeen and snacks. They have a diverse range of snacks, each with its own distinct taste and flavor. These products are tastier and healthier than other junk food and may be consumed by everyone. They sell a number of items, including mixes, cookies, methi mathri, tikoni mathri, masala namakpare, and more.
Go Zero — Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt.

Nimesh is the Founding Partner at 108 Capital, a Growth-stage venture fund partnering with founders building digital-first, scalable and sustainable businesses. Prior, Nimesh was the cofounder at trica, a full-stack technology platform for growth-stage investments and equity management. He has been an avid Investor in private markets and is alsofounding venture partner for India’s first $100Mn revenue based financing fund N+1 Capital and also advisor & Board member of Campus Fund – 1st dorm fund in India

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

KhiladiPro — KhiladiPro a sports technology startup using artificial intelligence to assess and support young athletes.
Koinbasket — KoinBasket lets you invest in diversified cryptocurrency portfolios and indexes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins and DeFi tokens on Binance, Coinbase and Huobi.
Intents Mobi — Mobile analytics, Logistics, Transportation, Fleet Management, Data Analytics

Rahul Seth is an Investor and Director at Antler.

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Payments
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

RevFin — RevFin is a digital lending company.
Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.
Gully Labs — Gully Labs is a homegrown sneaker design house, specializing in hand-lasted sneakers that blend Indian cultural motifs with contemporary design. The brand releases new collections every 60 days, often drawing inspiration from Indian traditions, festivals, and regional art forms. Gully Labs positions itself as a response to both the lack ofauthentic Indian representation in mainstream sneaker culture and the prevalence of imitation products in the market, aiming to celebrate original Indian stories and craftsmanship

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.

Engineer, Entrepreneur, passionate about data, ML and AI. Author of one of the fastest and robust NoSQL databases, BangDB and founder of IQLECT

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

DotPe — DotPe is a commerce and payments platform seeking to disrupt the payment experience by increasing customer engagement and offering catalog discovery.The technology start-up provides an offline enterprise business with a commerce and payments platform to drive digital transformation in the way they sell, manage, and engage their customers. Itenables businesses to sell more, sell directly, and sell more efficiently. It was founded in 2019 by Anurag Gupta, Gyanesh Sharma, and Shailaz Nag, and its headquarters are located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.

Harsh Pokharna founded OKCredit on April 2017 alongside Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

BodhiAI — Are you looking for the best online teaching app development services in India? With the help of Bodhi AI, you can build school and coaching class management app and software. Teach online, coduct live classes, upload notes, manage fees and attendance, create and sell courses. Launch your own app and website in a min.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Gobillion — Gobillion is making E-commerce social by enabling customers to buy together in groups or teams through its "Team Buy" model. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India.

Vikrant Batra is the Chief Marketing Officer for HP Inc. Vikrant has more than 20 years of experience in worldwide marketing and advertising across consumer packaged goods, utilities, finance and technology. He is an award-winning creative and marketing strategist and is the architect behind some of HP’s most transformative and thought-provokingcampaigns. Vikrant has held a variety of marketing leadership roles since joining HP in 2010. Most recently he served as Global Head of Marketing for HP’s $20 billion Imaging and Printing business. He is credited with spearheading the business’ shift to emotional storytelling – an approach that is anchored in insights, generates deeper connections with the global communities and drives demand. Prior to this he was the global head of marketing for HP’s $30B Personal Systems business where he led end-to-end marketing across PCs, mobility, solutions and services. Vikrant joined HP after a range of senior advertising and marketing agency roles supporting top global brands, At TracyLocke he was a Senior Vice President responsible for managing strategic brand planning, and at the Integer Group, an Omnicom agency, he served as Group Director. He began his career at J. Walter Thompson. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in marketing and advertising management from University of Bombay and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

DotPe — DotPe is a commerce and payments platform seeking to disrupt the payment experience by increasing customer engagement and offering catalog discovery.The technology start-up provides an offline enterprise business with a commerce and payments platform to drive digital transformation in the way they sell, manage, and engage their customers. Itenables businesses to sell more, sell directly, and sell more efficiently. It was founded in 2019 by Anurag Gupta, Gyanesh Sharma, and Shailaz Nag, and its headquarters are located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in: * Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value * Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Dapps — Join Dapps to discover and engage with digital communities that match your passions. Buy shares, and connect with like-minded individuals in a secure, decentralized platform that puts you in control.
TaxNodes — TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance.
TableSprint — An AI-first SaaS B2B platform for you to build apps with no coding needed. Start now with versatile playbooks tailored for all businesses.

Victor Wang is a Partner at HOF Capital. He attended the University of California Berkeley.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat